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PORTERVILLE, Calif. (KGPE) - 38-year-old Erika Sandoval admitted connected the basal that she killed her ex-husband, Exeter Police Officer Daniel Green backmost successful 2015.
Sandoval connected the basal successful beforehand of a assemblage was recounting Feb. 6, 2015.
“I changeable Daniel," said Sandoval.
Sandoval near enactment aboriginal and drove to Green’s Goshen location erstwhile helium was not there.
She testified she was determination to drawback her son’s apparel and leave.
A information camera from a neighbour down the roadworthy caught Sandoval walking up to the location aft she parked down the block.
She went astir the backmost and went up to the room model aft checking the backmost door.
“I took disconnected the model screen, and I enactment it down, and I nudged it, and it slid open,” said Sandoval.
She crawled inside, grabbed a weapon disconnected of the refrigerator, and started to snoop around.
She testified that she grabbed 2 much of Green's guns, unloaded them, and enactment them successful a duffle container she brought with her.
She claims she past went to the impermanent bedroom, wherever she saw inappropriate photos successful Green's unfastened safe.
"I was confused, and past I felt this choler travel implicit me,” said Sandoval.
Sandoval testified she was shocked to perceive Green travel location from the gym erstwhile she was successful the location due to the fact that usually, helium would enactment retired for a mates of hours.
She says she hid successful their son’s closet, afraid, and past erstwhile helium went into the bathroom, she came out.
“As soon I stepped out, helium looked astatine maine and it was like, kinda similar shock, similar 'What the hellhole you know?'” said Sandoval. “He said thing nether his breath, I can’t retrieve what helium said, but past his look got truthful angry, arsenic soon arsenic realization deed that it was maine and helium conscionable his look contorted into truthful overmuch choler and helium conscionable looked astatine maine and said I americium going to [explicative] termination you. That is erstwhile helium started coming towards me. At that infinitesimal that is erstwhile I lifted up the gun, and I changeable him.”
Sandoval testified that aft she changeable Green respective times, she panicked.
She says she grabbed a PlayStation, the guns, and Green’s telephone and discarded them successful Traver.
She past picked up her lad from her mother’s location and showed up precocious to her taxation appointment.
"When I got to the taxation place,” said Sandoval. “That is erstwhile it kinda deed maine what had happened, and I sat determination with [***child***] for a small spot and it conscionable deed me. I told [***child**] I was sorry, and I conscionable held him.”
Sandoval past went with her household to get frozen yogurt. They said she acted normally.
Later, she arrived astatine the transgression country wherever she lied to detectives astir not seeing Green.
“You lied to him,” said Defense Attorney Megan Casebeer.
“Yes,” answered Sandoval.
“You lied to him astir not knowing however Daniel had been killed?”
“Yes,” answered Sandoval.
The inappropriate photos that Sandoval claimed to person seen person ne'er been found.
Sandoval testified that the harmless was unfastened erstwhile she left, constabulary testified erstwhile they got to the house, the harmless was locked.
Cell telephone records besides showed Sandoval called Green implicit 160 times successful the days starring up to his death. When she was arrested, determination was a enactment with the sanction of Green’s caller woman recovered successful Sandoval’s purse.
